Bugzilla

Report a Bug or Enhancement - When reporting a bug, please give the exact steps to reproduce the problem. Please explain what went wrong, and what you expected to happen. For an enhancement, please explain how you'd use the new feature.

If you encounter a problem such as "An error occurred", or failure to open views or editors, please attach your Eclipse log file. To see the exception, use Window -> Show View -> Other. Open the PDE Runtime group and choose Error Log. Within the error log window, find the BIRT exception (if any) that just occurred. Double click on the error in question and you'll see a stack trace. Paste that into your bug report, preferably as a file attachment.

External Resources

BIRT Developer Center (BDC) is a developer site where BIRT users can find guides and documentation, share ideas, technical tips and code snippets, as well as download software, documentation and examples.

birt-dev (archive) - Development discussions about BIRT of interest to all BIRT committers. Topics include PMC meeting minutes, source code structure, CVS management, and integration among the various BIRT components. contributors and committers. Topics include PMC meeting minutes, source code structure, CVS management, and integration among the various BIRT components. Suggestions on how to improve the website or wiki are also welcome. Note: This mailing list receives numerous check-in and build notices. If you are not interested in these notifications setting up a filter in your email client will allow you to delete these messages or filter to a different folder for reading at a later time.

Contributions

Project - How the project is structured, who's on the PMC, project roles, etc.

Mailing List - While the newsgroup is for people who use BIRT, the mailing list is for those who help develop BIRT.

Contribute Fixes and Code - Interested in joining the BIRT project as a contributor? Maybe you found a bug and made a patch to the source code to address this, or perhaps you would like to make significant contribution in a specific area. This page provides more information on how to contribute code to the project.